Gameplay was projected onto a wall at OnLive, and OnLive guys watched people play. It was broadcasted, while OnLive employees criticized gameplay, trash talked, and jumped in to play. You could play any game, preferrably PlayPack games to get chosen. There were special guests like OnLive Nate, Garret, etc.

Armada 2526 continues the great tradition of space opera games. You guide your race from its first interstellar journeys, until it becomes a mighty galactic empire.

Along the way, you'll found new colonies and manage them, deploy and maneuver your mighty star fleets, and conduct research. Plot your strategy and turn your planets into mighty bastions. The trade system lets you trade valuable commodities between both your own and alien worlds. Alien relics, rare minerals, tourists, or even natural antimatter, your freighters will carry them all. Explore the galaxy and research new star systems, where you may encounter tachyon storms, psychic plants, primitives or find abandoned alien technology. Diplomacy is of utter importance in being successful. Make pacts and alliances, make threats or ask for favours - and when the time is right, replace diplomacy by space combat and fight it out in epic real-time 3D battles.

Although the game is complex, and the possible strategies endless, powerful help and advisor features, help you get up to speed quickly. Unlike many games in this genre, Armada 2526 focuses on providing a game that can be finished in a reasonable time, and emphasizes battle and strategy over economic micro-management.

The game consists of two sections. The Star Map is where you run your empire: manage your colonies, deploy your fleets, do research, and conduct diplomacy. It uses a turn based system, so you can take as long as you wish to plan your actions. However, once battle is joined, you switch to the battle module and fight it out in a real-time 3D system that brings to life the beauty and visceral carnage of space combat.

The Armada 2526 Gold Edition also includes the Supernova expansion. Supernova is the first expansion for Armada 2526 and gives you more to explore, more to exploit and two new races to exterminate. The exploration side of the game has been greatly enhanced with new types of stars and planets and a wide variety of special characteristics that a system may possess. There’s a new trade system that lets you build up a trading network, a system for espionage and special operations, new technologies to research and lots of new units types.

Dear Esther is the highly anticipated indie remake of the cult mod Dear Esther for Half-Life 2, powered by Valve's Source engine. Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realized world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the Outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: Dear Esther... - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years. Abandoning traditional gameplay for a pure story-driven experience, Dear Esther fuses it's beautiful environments with a breathtaking soundtrack to tell a powerful story of love, loss, guilt and redemption.

Dear Esther is a first-person ghost story. Rather than traditional game-play the focus here is on exploration, uncovering the mystery of a lonely island, of who you are and why you are here. Fragments of story are randomly uncovered when exploring the various locations of the island, making every each journey a unique experience.

With a set built entirely out of paper and cardboard, and sumptuously filmed, Lume is a game with a style and tactility unlike any other.

As Lumi, an inquisitive young girl, you discover that power to your grandad’s house has failed. What’s more, he’s nowhere to be seen, but appears to have left you some intriguing clues.

Immerse yourself in Lume’s photoreal world, solve perplexing paper puzzles to help restore the power through ingenious eco-technology, and uncover a deeper mystery behind the blackout. Beautifully animated with handcrafted care, this illuminating puzzle adventure game will put visual, aural and memory skills to the test.

OnLive moved Metro 2033, which was previously a PlayPass only game, to the PlayPack. The game is priced at $19.99 in the US
($13.99 PlayPack) and £19.99 in the UK (£13.99 PlayPack). The rental prices are $5.99 for 3
days ($4.19 PlayPack) and $8.99 for 5 days ($6.29 PlayPack) in the US. In the UK
the rental prices are £3.99 for 3 days (£2.79 PlayPack) and £5.99 for 5 days
(£4.19 PlayPack). The game is currently also on sale in the UK for £14.99 (£10.49 PlayPack).

Metro 2033 is set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow. Metro 2033 is a story of intensive underground survival where the fate of mankind rests in your hands.

In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the earth’s surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age.
The year is 2033. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside.

You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised Underground. Having never ventured beyond your Metro Station-City limits, one fateful event sparks a desperate mission to the heart of the Metro system, to warn the remnants of mankind of a terrible impending threat. Your journey takes you from the forgotten catacombs beneath the subway to the desolate wastelands above, where your actions will determine the fate of mankind.

Monday, 23 April 2012

OnLive added a new My Games feature to OnLive user accounts on their web page. This feature comes just in time for the OnLive Play-to-Win sweepstakes that is part of the OnLive PlayPack 200 celebration. You receive an entry into the sweepstakes for every PlayPack game you play for
a minimum of 200 seconds each. With the new My Games feature you can track which games you have played.

The new My Games feature consists of three tabs. The first tab is PLAY HISTORY which as the name says displays the games you have played in chronological order. The second tab is PLAYPACK which displays the OnLive PlayPack games you have played, if you are a PlayPack subscriber. The third tab is ALL GAMES which displays all the games you own. You can sort the games by genre and by alphabetical order/last played/play time/release date. You can also search through your games, if you are a heavy game buyer.

Each game has its corresponding info like full PlayPass or rental, last time played, total playtime, controller type supported, metascore, user rating, age rating, publisher and developer, release date, genre, game picture, game description, etc. You can also launch into each OnLive game you own directly, when you click on the corresponding play button of said game.

Adam Venture is an action explorer hero; adventurous but using his wits rather than resorting to violence. Brought to life from a third person perspective with the Unreal 3 engine, adventure gamers are in for a real visual treat in combination with family values storytelling.

In this second installment of the episodic series, Adam Venture and his crew end up in 1920's Jerusalem after having escaped alive from the Caverns of Eden.

On their continuous search for the Lost Garden of Eden, they become entangled in a thickening plot featuring a ruthless dig for the ancient King Solomon's treasure - but is that really all there is to it? Not all is as it seems...

In Air Conflicts: Secret Wars players can relive the most famous battles of the First and Second World War right up close. Before taking off, the player can choose between different aircrafts, each with different strengths and weaknesses. The game provides plenty of variety, as players can fly 16 meticulously detailed and accurate aircraft in nearly 50 exciting missions in the seven campaigns.

The mission tasks are diverse and range from air space clearance operations to the bombardment of targets on the ground, attacks on enemy convoys and reconnaissance, escort and patrol flights. After some missions the player can upgrade one of his skills in order to maneuver the airplanes easier, have more endurance or have your wingman boosted. Further, the player can choose between two control schemes. Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft.

Besides the solo campaigns, Air Conflicts: Secret Wars also offers several multiplayer modes for up to eight players.

Features:

- Fly in seven campaigns, each based upon a resistance movement of the Second World War.
- Participate in uniquely historical battles, such as the siege of Tobruk, the battle of the Neretva Bridge, and Operation Belt in Poland.
- Fight for the causes of key resistance movements such as the People's Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, the Polish Armia Krajowa, and the French Maquis.
- Celebrate the expression of the human spirit during the darkest days on Earth, from triumph to tragedy and back again.
- Action-Packed gameplay delivers the excitement of aerial combat in a manner accessible to everyone.
- Pilot more than fifteen individual aircraft, in both World War One and World War Two settings.
- Fly over twenty different landscapes, each individually detailed with period precision.
- 49 varied missions provide combat, stealth and exploratory gameplay.
- Machine gun your enemies, dog fight, bomb ground targets and rocket ground troops and enemy vehicles.
- The player can choose between two control schemes: Arcade and simulation. The first one makes the game easier to control, while the second one gives more options to control the aircraft.
- Several multiplayer modes for up to eight players.

Icebreakers is priced at $7.49 in the US ($5.24 PlayPack) and £4.99 in the UK (£3.49 PlayPack). The rental prices are $2.99 for 3 days ($2.09 PlayPack) and $3.99 for 5 days ($2.79 PlayPack) in the US. In the UK the rental prices are £1.99 for 3 days (£1.39 PlayPack) and £2.99 for 5 days (£2.09 PlayPack).

Icebreakers is a casual action game published and developed by Xibalba Studios.

In a small town in the borders of America and Canada, an unusual winter sport has become very popular.

In this game, each driver pilots a vehicle, much like a sled. The vehicles, called Icebreakers, are equipped with a water tank which launches a stream of water like a fire hose, this not only propels the craft forward but the water instantly gets frozen leaving behind a trail of ice.

Numerous rules of the game have become popular (there are different modes for different moods). Each of the neighborhood kids became interested and competition is fierce. Each kid now has their own custom sled with surprises for the competition.

Half a century after the Red Faction resistance and their Marauder allies freed Mars from the brutal Earth Defense Force, harmony on Mars is again threatened but this time by a lethal force shrouded in mystery.

When the massive Terraformer that supplies Mars with its Earth-like air and weather is destroyed, the atmosphere turns to chaos, super-tornados and lightning storms engulf the planet. To survive, the Colonists flee to the underground mines and build a network of habitable caves.

Five years later, Darius Mason, grandson of Martian Revolution heroes Alec Mason and Samanya, runs a lucrative business from Bastion, underground hub of Colonist activity. Mining, scavenging, mercenary work--if the job is dangerous, Darius is your man. Few sane people now venture to the ravaged surface, aside from contractors like Darius and the smugglers who run goods between the settlements.

When Darius is tricked into reopening a mysterious shaft in an old Marauder temple, he releases a long-dormant evil and unleashes Armageddon on Mars. As Colonist and Marauder settlements are torn asunder, only Darius and the Red Faction can save mankind. The battle will take them across the storm-blasted planet--and below it, to the very heart of the unspeakable threat.

Space Pirates and Zombies (S.P.A.Z.) is an indie action game published and developed by MinMax Games.

Space Pirates and Zombies takes place far enough in the future that Earth has become a toxic backwater planet, so...potentially not that far in the future. The galaxy has been colonized by humans, and the only means to travel to new star systems is through highly restricted and well defended warp gates. It is well known that systems closer to the galactic core become richer and richer as well as more scientifically advanced. This has led to theories of a secret system with a cache of treasure or knowledge at the galactic core feeding this growth. As a pirate, you must assemble a fleet and discover what treasure awaits you there.